- Anachronisms: Telephone pole visible on the left side of the screen when the argument over the burial takes place.
- Crew or equipment visible: Diver visible at the bottom of the waterfall.
- Crew or equipment visible: After Fort William Henry has surrendered, the assistant director is visible at the bottom of the screen, wearing a blue baseball cap and waving a megaphone.
- Revealing mistakes: Gray rock-textured canvas, presumably covering modern trail signs or graffiti, is clearly visible in final scenes. Hawkeye bumps a canvas while running through underpass, and a larger portion is visible as he returns to embrace Cora after Magua's death.
- Continuity: Hawkeye shoots a Huron who drops his gun. The gun falls off of a rock and then in the next shot reappears on the rock for Hawkeye to grab as he runs by.
- Crew or equipment visible: If you look very carefully during the opening, just as the elk emerges from the trees, you can see a man wearing a red hat, moving right next to the elk.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Major Heyward's company enters the forest for the first time, the drum tempo does not match the marching of the soldiers.
- Revealing mistakes: When Chingachgook hits Magua's arm with the war club, the club bends, showing that it was actually rubber.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: Duncan can be heard translating one of the lines from French before it is spoken.
- Anachronisms: As the British are leaving Fort William Henry, two buses are visible in the background as the British General rides by.
- Anachronisms: When the British leave the Fort, a propane gas bottle, a plastic box and bucket made of stainless steel can be seen as the soldiers go down the ramp.
- Continuity: During the messenger runner sequence, the sky above Hawkeye and the others changes between shots, showing different cloud patterns and periods of twilight.
- Continuity: When Cora is in the bedroom with Alice, her hair in braid over her right shoulder, in the next, it is over her left shoulder.
- Continuity: During the scene at Fort William Henry where the colonials are arguing with General Munro about releasing them to go back to their farms, Cora is shown standing in a doorway. In the first scene where she is first shown, the doorway is over her left shoulder. In the subsequent scene, the doorway is over her right shoulder and she ultimately exits through this doorway.
- Continuity: When the party going to Fort William Henry is attacked, Alice's hair is pinned up in a complex pattern. However, a few minutes later her hair is completely down and there is no evidence that it was ever done up at all.
- Anachronisms: When Hawkeye is hunting at the beginning of the movie, there is a chain link fence in the background.
- Continuity: As they are climbing rocks along the river, Uncas looks back at Alice. His earring has changed sides. (The shot was flopped)
- Continuity: Maj. Duncan delivers a dispatch to Gen. Web. After he reads it, Gen. Web puts it completely rolled up and straight ahead in front of him. Subsequently it appears placed crosswise and a little open.
- Crew or equipment visible: When the troops are leaving the fort there are two big red and white buses as well as a blue and white umbrella on the beach.
- Continuity: As the British Army is retreating from Fort William-Henry, Magua ambushes the British. At one point in the battle, Major Duncan Heyward is commanding a small group of British soldiers. Most of them get killed, and he begins to run away. The bayonet on his rifle disappears soon after he shoots one of the Indians.
- Anachronisms: The flare launched from Fort William Henry, during the bombardment scene was equipped with a parachute to provide longer use. This type of flare was not invented until shortly before the First World War.
- Anachronisms: The bars of the cell in Fort William Henry, in which Hawkeye was detained, were deformed reinforcing rod (rebar). Reinforcing rod was not used in construction until at least 1848, but deformed rod requires specialized rolling machinery which did not exist at that time.
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- Continuity: SPOILER: Just before the final fight between Chingachgook and Magua, Magua is seen getting ready with a knife in one hand and a tomahawk in the other. However, just before they clash, Magua is only holding the tomahawk.
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